Mike and I have been planning our retirement for many years. One of our dreams was to live and travel the United States in our Motorhome. It came true the end of Dec. 2007. Mike is 64 and I'm younger. We travel with our cats Stormy, better known as Evil Kitty and Lucy a new addition in 2011. Lucy is known as the good kitty. We could not imagin living any where but in our MH. After almost 5 years on the road we enjoy it as much as when we started.

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

When The Gold Rush Was Over

Wednesday June 26, 2012

We did many tours in Dawson City and one of them was Dredge #4. The monster gold mining machine.

Dredge #4 was built in 1912 for the Klondike Mining Company. This is the largest wooden hulled, bucket line gold dredge in North America, it was pulled from the muck in 1992, exactly as the last shift left it 32 years before.

This was corporation mining. The cost of #4 was $300,000 and was built in Ohio. After transporting the machine to Dawson City, assembling it and getting it operational it took only 30 days for it to pay for itself.